A spreadsheet-like enrichment workspace that chains 150+ data providers and AI research into one prospect list
Superb if data quality is your bottleneck and you enjoy building workflows — overkill and slow to learn for a first outbound campaign.
Setup: Multi-day · Control: Acts + logs everything
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Clay is an outbound data orchestration workspace, not inbound lead capture and not, by itself, an SDR. You build tables of target companies and people, then chain enrichments across more than 150 data providers in waterfalls — trying one source, then the next — to find verified emails, phone numbers, technographics and firmographics. Its AI agent, Claygent, researches the open web for custom data points no database sells, such as a specific hiring signal or a detail from a company's site, and can draft personalised opening lines from that research. Signals for job changes, company news and web intent can trigger fresh rows automatically. Sending is the boundary: Clay can launch campaigns natively through its sequencer on paid plans or push enriched, personalised lists into tools like Instantly, Smartlead and Outreach, and Growth adds CRM auto-sync. Replies, objection handling and meeting booking happen in those downstream tools, not in Clay. For a solo founder the power is real but so is the learning curve — Clay rewards people who think in workflows and spreadsheets, and its two-meter pricing, Actions for platform work and Data Credits for vendor data, takes a few campaigns to predict. It fits best when data quality is the bottleneck, not when you need your first campaign out this afternoon.
Two usage meters (Actions and Data Credits) inside Free, Launch and Growth plans; Enterprise is custom. Annual billing is cheaper.
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Launch | $167/mo billed annually ($185/mo billed monthly) |
| Growth | $446/mo billed annually ($495/mo billed monthly) |
| Enterprise | Custom |
Integrations we verified: HubSpot, Salesforce, Instantly, Smartlead, Outreach, Salesloft, Slack, Zapier
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